Friday, August 20, 2010

Freshman Year

After a long week, it was nice to wake up at my Mom's house this morning. I scheduled a few tweets for work and headed out for a quick run before getting back to the grind. It was a hilly run that looked like this:

Even with the hills I was able to maintain a pretty good pace. Gotta love the 4000 ft elevation drop. I'm totally off of my training schedule but I figure I can get in a couple good long runs before we head to Europe in 13 days!

Time: 36 mins Distance: 4.05 miles Avg. Pace: 8:53 min/miles

After getting cleaned up and some work done it was time to take my little brother Riley to freshman registration. It totally brought me back to when I started high school. I vividly remember going to my registration, even what I wore. As I watched the kids in line, unsure of themselves, with anxiety and excitement taking their school pictures, trying to open their lockers and getting their class schedules I was thankful I was all done with that. Though I did meet two of my BFFs Sarah and Lisa that year.

Riley is playing freshman football this year which I think is great. It's also a great way to get to know some of the new people that he'll be going to school with and being confident heading into the new world of high school. He is also quite the ladies man. Every time we walked somewhere on the campus there were girls waving and calling for his attention. It was so cute.

After registration I took he and Emma for a celabatory frozen yogurt treat. We stopped by FroyoLife. It was delicious! I basically tried half the flavors and had fun with all of the toppings. Between the three of us we ate 2 lbs of froyo. Delicious. It was awesome getting some one on one time with my Californian siblings. They are getting so big and are just great kiddos...ok teenagers. I will be 30 years old when Riley graduates in 2014. Man I feel old!

We headed home and so I could get some work done before Mom and Mike got home. We had a nice evening talking, eating a delicious chicken, caper and artichoke dinner Mike made and hanging out. It's nice spending some time with them not in heavy duty grieving mode. Tommorrow my Uncle Ben, his girls and my Aunt Jan's family is coming over for a little BBQ.